configuring alsa-lib

[Michael Franz]

Ryan,

I will have to spend more time on this.  Hopefully I will not have to
compile everything.  Once I get it working I will try to get it to work
within Macports.

Thanks for all your help.

Michael

On Jan 20, 2008 10:45 PM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:

>
> On Jan 20, 2008, at 08:29, Michael Franz wrote:
>
> > My new project is compiling alsa-lib 1.0.15. There seems to logic
> > in the configuration and other files for the regular flavors
> > (freebsd/linux/darwin/..) so I feel somewhat confident this can be
> > accomplished. As I am not all that familar with autoconf and some
> > of the standard tools I will probably have some pretty simple
> > questions for you gurus.
> >
> > My first question has to deal with endian.h . It seems that linux
> > has it as a standard include, but darwin uses machine/endian.h . I
> > figure that I can patch the source (alsa) to use one or the other
> > based on something from configure. In the past I have seen/used
> > something like HAVE_XXXX_H around specific includes. Is there a
> > better way to approach this problem?
>
> I don't know that we can help you with this. MacPorts is about taking
> software that works on Mac OS X and making it easier to install. If
> the software does not already work on Mac OS X, then your best bet is
> to first work with the developers of the software to make it work on
> Mac OS X. After they've done that, then you can make a MacPorts
> portfile for it.
>
>
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